Sam McBride

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  Secret memos told PM ‘quality intelligence' on IRA was 'rarely obtainable’ – contrary to what’s now widely believed

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  Revealed | The evidence that Belfast schoolgirl was hit by baton round fired at a forbidden range

More Sam McBride

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  Starmer's bland answers were designed to tell us little – but he hinted at one significant NI policy

  

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  Swagger, hubris and greed of Paisley led to biblical fall and end of family’s political dynasty

  

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  As the DUP’s once-lofty citadels fall, it pushes for a unionist unity which would be disastrous

  

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  DUP are in trouble wherever you look, but it’s a varying picture for unionism

  

• What it’s like to be at an election count in Northern Ireland

  

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  There’s more in common between Liz Truss and People Before Profit’s communist manifesto than is first apparent

  

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  The green benches may be in Sinn Féin’s future – whether it likes it or not

  

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  This election could see multiple seats in NI change hands – but every party here has damaged itself

  

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  As the public mood on the environment shifts, the Greens should be pushing an open door – but they have a problem

  

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  Nationalist parties’ scant mention of Irish unity in manifestos says much about how close they think it to be

  

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  Both main unionist parties call for greater RAF and Royal Navy presence in Northern Ireland to prepare for possible war

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  All at sea over the post-Brexit border, DUP’s manifesto is a shocking climbdown

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  Guns are silent now, but ingrained hatreds live on in Northern Ireland

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  DUP’s policy chief privately told leadership it was misleading the public on Irish Sea border deal, letter reveals

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  Half of TUV manifesto is about Irish Sea border, but it also reproduces key Reform UK policies despite Farage snub

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  Alliance’s manifesto reveals a party serious about securing power, with radical pledges softened or disguised

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  Sinn Fein manifesto is a short and not so sweet pamphlet of pure blandness

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  Sam McBride: Day the Pope tapped his toe to the swagger of ‘The Sash’

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  Naomi Long is misleading public by denying her law banned us from saying Savile was a paedophile – when that's exactly what it did

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  UUP pondering fiscal anarchy to avoid life-threatening cuts to health — and no one knows how this will end

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